Passive Acoustic Monitoring
- Optimization of Towed Passive Acoustic Monitoring (PAM) Array Design and Performance Study
- NOAA and BOEM Minimum Recommendations for Use of Passive Acoustic Listening Systems in Offshore Wind Energy Development Monitoring and Mitigation Programs
- PAM Workshop #1
- PAM Workshop #2
- Atlantic PAM deployment map on the Northeast Ocean Data Portal
- NOAA’s Passive Acoustic Cetacean Map
- National Center for Environmental Information Passive Acoustic Data Archive
Geophysical Surveys (high-resolution and seismic)
- Biological and Conference Opinion on Bureau of Ocean Energy Management and Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement’s Oil and Gas Program Activities in the Gulf of America
- Categorizing Active Marine Acoustic Sources Based on Their Potential to Affect Marine Animals
- Charting A Course Toward Quieter Seas | Bureau of Ocean Energy Management
- Characteristics of Sounds Emitted During High-Resolution Marine Ghysical Surveys
- Propagation Characteristics of High-Resolution Ghysical Surveys: Open Water Testing
- Propagation Characteristics of High-Frequency Sounds Emitted During High-Resolution Geophysical Surveys: Acoustic Modeling Effort
- BOEM fact sheet (HRG surveys and Seismic Airgun Survey Comparison)
- Understanding High Resolution Ghysical (HRG) Surveys
- Marine Mammal Risk Assessment for Gulf of Mexico G&G Activities (BOEM 2021-022)
- Managing Human Activity and Marine Mammals: A Biologically Based, Relativistic Risk Assessment Framework
Offshore Wind
- BOEMs Office of Renewable Energy Programs
- BOEM’s Recommendations for Impact Pile Driving Sound Exposure Modeling and Sound Field Measurement for Offshore Wind Construction and Operations Plans
- Marine Mammal Risk Assessment for New England Offshore Wind Farms Construction and Operation Scenarios (BOEM 2021-080)
- Updated Vulnerability Index for Risk Assessment Framework (interim report, March 2025)
- NOAA Fisheries’ role in minimizing the impact of offshore wind development on whales
- Marine Mammal Commission Renewable Energy Development and Marine Mammals
- Regional Wildlife Science Collaborative for Offshore Wind
- Offshore Wind Development and Whales
Scientific Studies
General
- Sound Source List
- Acoustics Today article on BOEM and Ocean Noise
- Underwater Noise in the Arctic - A State of Knowledge Report
- Discovery of Sound in the Sea
- Office of Naval Research
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - Fisheries
- Marine Acoustics Fact Sheet
- Ocean Sciences Acoustics Edition
- NOAA Fisheries’ UME
- NOAA Fisheries and necropsies
- NOAA Fisheries Stranding Response Program
- Marine Mammal Acoustic Technical Guidance